On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 8:43:15 PM UTC-6, Mr. Luddite wrote:
A day of heavy, wet snow up here took down tree limbs causing the first
power outage we've had in about three years. Even last
winter with 5 blizzard type storms in 7 weeks and over 100" of snow
didn't cause any outages.

The crap today wasn't typical snow. It was more like 8-9 inches of
white slush. When I plowed it created rolls of water.

Fortunately, the outage wasn't too long. About 3 hours. I took a
ride around town and saw three trees that had been set ablaze by
having their limbs droop down on the high voltage lines. 13,500 volts
tends to do that.

Several years ago, the storms of snow and ice took out the power to my folks rural farm house for almost 2 weeks. Every day Id haul gasoline up there for their generator, and it was also my job to bring in the firewood. They didn't mind it, and the little 6k generator kept the lights, tv deep freezer and refrigerator running. Of course dad didn't run the generator 24 7, but would kick it on when he'd manually 'hit the button.' The TV worked well, on some a power inverter. Btw, I had a couple 8-D's for that

Only complaint was mom did get hacked at me for tracking in snow. LOL!